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#286 - The Outsider
With its story of an idealistic political outsider who arrives in Washington to shake things up, Frank Capra's MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) he…
4 years, 7 months ago
PREVIEW - #285 - The Michael & Us Film Festival
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/58734680 In this very special episode, the boys have a riff session about a range of movies of wildly…
4 years, 7 months ago
#284 - The Gnome in the Garden Part II: The Dialectic of Cool Britannia
THE QUEEN (2006) brings together a mismatched-buddy duo — one a symbol of stiff-upper-lipped British tradition (Liz Windsor), the other a radical lef…
4 years, 7 months ago
PREVIEW - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Pyramid Schemes w/ Robert FitzPatrick
PATREON EXCLUSIVE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/58634648 Multilevel marketing is a scam. But thanks to protection by political elites and well-fund…
4 years, 7 months ago
UNLOCKED: The Problem Is Neoliberalism w/George Monbiot
A month or so on, we're releasing this one from behind its Patreon paywall. If you want to hear more interviews like this, and get an extra episode e…
4 years, 8 months ago
#283 - Nuance Mongering
FALLING DOWN (1993) features Michael Douglas as an ordinary man who's mad as hell, turning into a Travis Bickle for the Rush Limbaugh era. It's Holly…
4 years, 8 months ago
PREVIEW - #282 - Meltdown (w/ Alex Gibney and David Sirota)
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/58314876 In this very special episode, Luke talks to Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Tax…
4 years, 8 months ago
PREVIEW - #281 - Life Finds a Way
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/58157534 To tweak a phrase from Jeff Goldblum, so much time was spent asking IF the Superdelegate Pat…
4 years, 8 months ago
#280 - Lost Futures
We travel to postwar Vienna to visit THE THIRD MAN (1949) and discuss how this classic film's style perfectly articulates a bleak and despairing stat…
4 years, 8 months ago
PREVIEW - #279 - Bad Pod Friends (w/ Branko Marcetic)
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/57836336 We're joined by our old pal Branko Marcetic to discuss the viral sensation that is the New Y…
4 years, 8 months ago